People often say that BHL violates the “non-aggression axiom.” After all, BHL is in principle okay with certain forms of government-sponsored social insurance schemes, if these turn out to be…
Orthodox libertarians think quite a bit hinges on the definition of “liberty”. They try to revise the English language and reject what philosophers call “positive” conceptions of liberty, saying that…
…en Español! I don’t know why Palmer keeps accusing Schmidtz and me of conflating wealth with freedom. We explicitly disavow this in the book. Anyways, here’s our view: 1. In…
The Institute for Humane Studies is sponsoring a series of career-development webcasts here. On March 5th, I’ll be discussing how to succeed in graduate school (i.e., how to act in grad…
Read it here. Jason Brennan is a new kickin’ kid on the block of political philosophy. He writes about J.S. Mill, communitarians, alienation, paradoxes of justice in Rawls, whether legal…
C-SPAN did a one-hour interview with me on my most recent book, Libertarianism. You can watch the video here. It was a bit of a surreal interview for me, in part…